Government Notices

In July, when New York officials announced the results of testing for lead in the water at more than 1,500 New York City school buildings, they said less than 1 percent of samples showed lead concentrations that exceeded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines. The officials assured parents, the water was safe to drink.

On February 16, 2016, a day after a bellwether trial was scheduled to begin in Massachusetts federal court, Fresenius Medical Care announced a proposed $250 million settlement in multidistrict litigation over side effects from its dialysis drugs GranuFlo and NaturaLyte.

Flint, Michigan residents, suffering health problems and financial burdens brought on by the lead in their drinking water, have begun seeking legal remedies. The city’s 100,000 were exposed to high levels of lead in their tap water after the city changed water sources in 2014 in an effort to save money. The water is particularly dangerous to young children, whose brains and bodies are still developing. Lead exposure can cause irreversible problems including lower IQ, learning difficulties, and behavioral problems.

In the Northern District of Texas, five lawsuits over the DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant have been consolidated into one bellwether trial before federal Judge Ed Kinkeade. Over the past four weeks, jurors have been hearing arguments over whether the metal hip implant is to blame for injuries such as metal poisoning. Plaintiffs in the litigation, as with other cases over metal-on-metal hip implants, allege the implant fails at high rates and sheds metal debris.

In 2010, DePuy issued a global recall of its ASR metal-on-metal hip implants because the devices were failing at higher rates than expected. In other words, patients who received the ASR experienced complications within a relatively short period of time resulting in a second surgery, known as a revision surgery, to remove the implant. The ASR recall brought concerns over metal-on-metal hip implants to light, and thousands of lawsuits have been filed. DePuy Orthopaedics created a settlement program in 2013 to handle ASR injury claims. More More Expert Witnesses Testify in DePuy Pinnacle Trial

Device maker Boston Scientific has been sued under the Racketeering and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for allegedly orchestrating a conspiracy to sell transvaginal mesh made from counterfeit plastic smuggled from China.

Transvaginal mesh devices are implanted in about 55,000 women each year to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The polymer used to make all of Boston Scientific’s mesh, the polypropylene Marlex HGX-030-1, had been specified in regulatory documents filed for Boston Scientific’s mesh products. No other polymers could be used in its current mesh products, Qmed reports. More Boston Scientific Sued for Racketeering and Use of Counterfeit Plastic

Included in the omnibus spending bill passed by Congress on December 18, was an extension of health benefits to 9/11 responders and survivors who suffer illnesses and injuries from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

An $8.1 billion measure to extend the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act is part of the omnibus spending bill expected to be passed by Congress this week. The legislation provides benefits to first responders who became ill after the September 11 attacks.

A team of Harvard scientists has just published a study in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives showing that candy-flavored e-cigarette liquid contains chemicals that cause the serious lung disease Popcorn Lung.

Mentor Corp, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, has settled a transvaginal mesh case less than three weeks before the bellwether trial was scheduled to begin.

Mentor filed settlement documents in Georgia federal court last week, settling a case involving the company’s ObTape vaginal sling. According to the documents, the company was accused of making defective pelvic mesh implants that cause painful infections and other complication, Law360 reports. The trial would have started on November 30. More Mentor Corp. Settles Transvaginal Mesh Case Just Ahead of Bellwether Trial

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